Prescription Administrator

NHS; St. Ives; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in St. Ives is seeking a Prescription Administrator to support the safe issuing of medications. This role involves processing prescription requests, liaising with patients and pharmacies, and assisting in medication reviews. Ideal candidates should have experience in General Practice or Community Pharmacy and familiarity with SystmOne. Full-time and part-time applications will be considered, offering a collaborative environment to enhance patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Prescription Administrator or Prescription Clerk.
• Experience processing prescription requests.

Responsibilities

• Processing repeat prescription requests.
• Supporting the use of electronic repeat dispensing.
• Booking medication reviews.
• Identifying patients who require greater monitoring for their medications.
• Ensuring blood tests have been attended.

Skills

Experience working with prescriptions or medication

Experience working in General Practice or Community Pharmacy

Confident liaising with patients and healthcare organisations

Tools

SystmOne clinical system

Job description

Riverport Medical Practice is looking to appoint a Prescription Administrator to join our team. Both full-time and part-time applications will be considered for this role.

The ideal candidate will be have experience working in General Practice supporting a prescription team and processing prescription requests. This is the ideal role for a Prescription Clerk or Dispenser.

Main duties of the job

The Prescription Administrator will work alongside our existing prescription team to support the safe issuing of medication across the Practice.

This includes processing prescription requests that patients have submitted both digitally and on paper.

The Prescription Administrator is a key role at the Practice in supporting our team and patients with prescription queries. The ideal candidate will be confident liaising with patients, staff, and other healthcare organisations such as community pharmacies.

The role not only supports the Practice team, but also the aligned residential care homes with their medication ordering.

The Prescription Administrator also supports long-term condition management by inviting patients to monitoring appointments, blood tests, and medication reviews.

About us

Riverport Medical Practice is a GMS practice with 13,500 patients. Currently rated 'Good' by CQC, the Practice has three sites in St Ives, Somersham and Fenstanton.

The Practice uses SystmOne clinical system as well as other digital healthcare solutions such as Abtrace.

Riverport Medical Practice has a team of 50 members of staff including GPs, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physician Associates, and Healthcare Assistants.

Job responsibilities

• Processing repeat prescription requests
• Supporting the use of electronic repeat dispensing
• Booking medication reviews
• Identifying patients who require greater monitoring for their medications (such as high risk drugs, anticoagulants etc)
• Ensuring blood tests have been attended
• Submitting information to the clinical system such as INR results from the anticoag team

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience working with prescriptions or medication
• Experience working in General Practice or Community Pharmacy
• Experience using TPP SystmOne clinical system
• Experience working as a Prescription Administrator or Prescription Clerk

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.